by David Krell | May 2, 2013 | David Krell
All in the Family dominated prime time programming in the first half of the 1970s. It was a jewel for the Tiffany Network, a nickname for CBS because of the network’s high quality news and entertainment programming. Created by Norman Lear, All in the Family...
by David Krell | Apr 26, 2013 | David Krell
Julie Newmar’s sex appeal as Catwoman on the 1960s television show Batman stemmed not only from a statuesque figure, a skin-tight outfit, and a beautiful visage. Newmar’s self-assuredness was a powerful force, too. In The Twilight Zone episode Of Late I...
by David Krell | Apr 25, 2013 | David Krell
Ginger or Mary Ann? It’s a question that’s puzzled baby boomers and Generation Xers that watched Gilligan’s Island, a show that lasted three years on CBS (1964-67) and enjoyed a thriving life in reruns in the 1970s and 1980s. Ginger Grant was a...
by David Krell | Mar 27, 2013 | David Krell
On September 17, 1972, CBS introduced television viewers to M*A*S*H, a half-hour comedy filmed with a laugh track and set in an Army hospital situated approximately three miles from the front lines of the Korean War. The M*A*S*H acronym stands for Mobile Army...
by David Krell | Mar 15, 2013 | David Krell
Kid Power aired on ABC during the 1972-73 television season — it was another product of the Rankin-Bass animation machine that relied heavily on transforming the creations of others. Based on Morrie Turner’s Wee Kids comic strip, Kid Power centered on a...
